2.5 Analysis
Demographic data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics-Version 24 and summarized as means and standard deviations for continuous data and frequencies for categorical data. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. All transcripts were verified against the audio-recordings by the first author and imported into a qualitative analysis software program NVivo 12 .
Thematic content analysis was used to analyze the information gathered during semi-structured interviews 15. The six phases of thematic content analysis were conducted independently by two members (HP and AO) of the research team to generate the main themes in participants’ responses 15. Disagreements in identification of themes were handled through consensus of the two analysts (HP and AO). As the main themes that emerged from each participant group overlapped across the entire sample and no theme was solely identified by only one participant group, the resulting themes were collapsed across all participants.